Forcipomyia (Saliohelea) leei Wirth and Ratanaworabhan

William L. Grogan, Jr., Hribar, Lawrence J., Murphree, C. Steven & Cilek, James E., 2010, New records of biting and predaceous midges from Florida, including species new to the fauna of the United States (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), Insecta Mundi 2010 (147), pp. 1-59 : 18

Forcipomyia (Saliohelea) leei Wirth and Ratanaworabhan

Forcipomyia (Saliohelea) leei Wirth and Ratanaworabhan, 1978: 498 ( Colombia) ; Wilkening et al. 1985: 517 (Florida records); Borkent and Grogan 2009: 9 (in Nearctic catalog; distribution).

Discussion. This common species occurs in the eastern United States as far north as New York and in the Neotropics in the Caribbean to southern Brazil. Wilkening et al. (1985) listed it from Alachua, Jefferson, Leon, Marion and Orange counties. Subsequently, Porch et al. (1992) documented a specimen collected from a sundew ( Drosera sp. ) “in a hillside bog along U. S. Highway 331” in Walton Co. Porch et al. referred to this individual as a female, but it is actually a male and apparently the only record of this species from Walton Co. We also provide the first records from Highlands Co.

New records. Walton Co., Hwy. 331, 19 Oct. 1986, S. S. Porch, ex. Drosera , 1 male (WLGC). Highlands Co., Lake Placid, Archbold Biological Station, 4 April 1992, W. W. Wirth, Malaise trap, 1 female, 1 male (FSCA).